[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2012-10-21 Thread John Need
I am happy to report that the upgrade to 12.10 has fixed this problem for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987220 Title: System does not power off reliably

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2012-07-24 Thread John Need
Lucy O'Neill's a genius. Her fix worked for me. I'm running a Dell Inspiron 1720 with an NVidia card. Here's what I did gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub Replaced e the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=on" and saved the file sudo update-grub Rebooted (I had to hold the po

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2012-07-24 Thread John Need
Nonethess, kudos for the legwork. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987220 Title: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI To manage